Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Photo A mural by Max Spivak at the base of the 5 Bryant Park office tower in Manhattan includes shapes that appear abstract at first, but closer inspection reveals them to be textile makers’ tools, like a T-square, above the entrance. Credit Michael Appleton for The New York Times The shadows of West 40th Street…
“We are especially concerned about how this legislation could affect our student-athletes and employees,” NCAA President Mark Emmert said in a statement Thursday afternoon. He said the NCAA will “work diligently” to ensure competitors and visitors at next week’s Final Four are not “negatively impacted by this bill.” Emmert also said the organization, which is…
Buy Photo Reporters interview Gov. Mike Pence.(Photo: Charlie Nye / The Star)Buy Photo Soon after Gov. Mike Pence signed the religious freedom bill into law Thursday, Salesforce.com founder and CEO Marc Benioff announced on Twitter that he would no longer send employees or customers to Indiana. “Today we are canceling all programs that require our…
Credit Illustration by Javier Jaén Not long ago, our blockbuster business books spoke in unison: Trust your gut. The secret to decision-making lay outside our intellects, across the aisle in our loopy right brains, with their emo melodramas and surges of intuition. Linear thinking was suddenly the royal road to ruin. Dan Ariely’s “Predictably Irrational”…
Facebook, a dull and endlessly scrolling record of personal propaganda and content headlined in two or more sentences, isn’t satisfied with the way its 1.4 billion users (most non-sentient) consume the news. According to theNew York Times, it takes an epic eight secondsfor the average Joe Facebook User to load an outside news link, clicked…
Earlier this week the New York Times reported that Facebook was offering publishers a deal: With 1.4 billion users, the social media site has become a vital source of traffic for publishers looking to reach an increasingly fragmented audience glued to smartphones. In recent months, Facebook has been quietly holding talks with at least half…
Nothing attracts news organizations like Facebook. And nothing makes them more nervous. With 1.4 billion users, the social media site has become a vital source of traffic for publishers looking to reach an increasingly fragmented audience glued to smartphones. In recent months, Facebook has been quietly holding talks with at least half a dozen media…
An algorithm that just went up for auction in New York. (Chris Maury, “Progression: Triptych, 2011-2013.” Available on Artsy.net.) Until about three weeks ago, Pinterest was — hands down, no contest — my absolute favorite social network. Yeah, I know it lacks the cachet of Twitter or Snapchat. I understand its associations with the bored…
When they startedSoulCycle in 2006, the wellness industry had not yet reached its apex. Yoga wasn’t something you did over lunch with a business associate; there wasn’t a juice bar on every corner. Many have credited Cutler and Rice for helping kickstart the boutique fitness craze, amassing a cult following happy to “follow [their] soul”…
Tesla basically just ignited the driverless car era Elon Musk discusses the all-wheel drive Tesla D in October 2014. Image: Ringo H.W. Chiu/Associated Press By Chris Taylor2015-03-20 01:22:19 UTC The computer-controlled driverless car is barreling down the road of the future towards us. We’ve known this for a long time, but the speed and the…